CB's Question of the Week

[cabenson]

You have a time machine in your possession, but you are only allowed to use it twice- once to go back to one particular date in time, and the other to return to the present.

What date in time do you choose to visit and why?

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[sooozie1982.livejournal.com]

Ooh, good question.

Gosh..any date in history. I don't know if I'd choose a specific date..maybe a specific period. Like maybe Roman times?

Aaah! Your question..so hard...[passes out]

[cabenson.livejournal.com]

Your answer is rejected. Please try again...more specific.

Thank you,
ev01 CB
;)

[sooozie1982.livejournal.com]

Hmm. Okay, I'd go back to when Christ was alive and say to him, "Dude, for riz, you're not going to believe what people are going to do in your name." Also, because I just want to see what all the hype is about.

If you want a really specific date..I'd go back to that February night in '64 when the Beatles were on Sullivan for the first time. I know, it's not noble, but I really would've liked to see that.

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[mikee-pm.livejournal.com]

i'm going back as a participant or as an observer?

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[cabenson.livejournal.com]

Participant, observer, object...it's your call.

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[mikee-pm.livejournal.com]

i'll go back and prevent Rabin's murder in 1995.

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[bluepoet.livejournal.com]

Wow. I think that's a wonderful, wonderful thing to do with your time machine.

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[mikee-pm.livejournal.com]

thank you :-)
it would've created a new middle east.
i really believe that. he was our one big hope.

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[bluepoet.livejournal.com]

I was in high school at the time, and while I didn't know all that much about international politics, I remember watching it on the news, thinking that it was a serious blow to the fight for peace. It made me very sad.

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[maroukian.livejournal.com]

bigsmileforyou

[bluepoet.livejournal.com]

I'd have to do a little family research to get a good date to use, but I'd go back in time and meet my grandfather (my dad's dad), who died while my mom was pregnant with me. She says he was an amazing man, and she liked him very much. I've always had this idea that he and I would have had a really special bond.

[speshulduck.livejournal.com]

Well, first I'd beg the Doctor to take me on more than one trip, and then I'd probably beg him to just dump me in the future. But when he refused to do any of the above, I'd ask him to take me back to meet Shakespeare, preferably near the end of his life so I couldn't muck up time by mentioning something he hadn't yet written.

[jandyle.livejournal.com]

poetic answer:

I'd go back to 1927 and see the first screening of The Jazz Singer. I want to hear that first line spoken in a wide-release movie and witness the amazement of those around me first hand. I want to see movies before TV and video, when it was more about magic and less about blowing shit up and surround sound.

political answer:

I'd go back and hang out on the grassy knoll and see who really fired the other shots.

depressing but true personal answer:

I'd go back and stop my 15 year old self from ever going near his house that night, or probably just beat his ass before he could ever lay a hand on me.

[kelbelle.livejournal.com]

I almost can't believe I'm going to say this, as a kid of divorce, but I think I'd like to go back and see my parents get married. July 4th, 1975.

[theholyinnocent.livejournal.com]

1895, London: I'd tell Oscar Wilde to GET THE HELL OUT OF DODGE and if he refused, would bonk him on the head with an absinthe bottle and take him to France myself.

Or maybe I'd go back about 5 years and beg Bjork not to wear that swan dress to the Academy Awards.

[charliesmum.livejournal.com]

I'd like to hang out with Jane Austin. We really know so little about her, other than she was very intelligent and witty. She just seems like she'd be a fun person to get to know. And I'd bring a photo of Colin Firth and ask her if she thinks he looks like her Darcy.

Or I'd go back and try to stop my grandmother from killing herself.

[jandyle.livejournal.com]

Or I'd go back and try to stop my grandmother from killing herself.

You and me both. My grandma killed herself about eight months before I was born. Everyone tells me I look/act/talk so much like she did when she was young, and I'm sort of sad I'll never get to meet her.

[charliesmum.livejournal.com]

That's really sad about your grandmother. I at least knew my grandmother, she died when I was 15.

[jandyle.livejournal.com]

It is sad. When she died the youngest of her children (my uncle A) was only 15. But she had it planned well, and she did it at her doctor's office so that none of her family members would have to find her.

[maroukian.livejournal.com]

I would enjoy going back to many eras out of curiosity... but the colonial American practice of slavery that dragged through the first half of the 19th century precipitated a number of social phenomena we still haven't figured out, reconciled or restituted...

... so, I guess it would be around 1740-1750 when I'd have to show up to do something about that.

[tudorlady.livejournal.com]

January 15, 1559 (and the month preceding). I want to be 'at court' when QEI is crowned, and for the first time a single, unmarried woman is the ruler. (Plus, I want to wear the clothes!)

[betsybanger.livejournal.com]

I would go back 5 years to Christmas day to meet my wife's mother. She tells me she was a wonderful woman.

[jadoreguy.livejournal.com]

I'd go back to August 4, 1962 and stop Marilyn Monroe from dying.

[haildorothygale.livejournal.com]

Not really inspired but, if I we're feeling selfish, I would hop on back to biblical times and hang with Mary Magdalene around the time Jesus was on his first and only Middle Eastern tour and figure out what all the fuss was about. Was MM a het fangirl I wonder? The first thunker maybe? Is the woobiefication of Jesus canon or fanon? Did the disciples sit around the campfire penning Peter/John/Paul in their spare time? Has fandom damaged my brain? Who knows?

But really I'd go back make sure my uncle was in hospital, where he should have been, when he had his heart attack.

[lonejaguar.livejournal.com]

Ordinarily, I'd probably say go back to meet Salvador Dali, but really, I think I'd like to go back to the 60s or 70s and meet my Dad.